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These Celebrities Want You to Vote for Marianne Williamson

By Sophie Kleeman April 28, 2014 3:50 pmApril 28, 2014 3:50 pm

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Nicole Richie in an endorsement video for Marianne Williamson.Credit

Much has been made of Marianne Williamson — a spiritual adviser and New York Times best-selling author — and her glittering, celebrity-laden campaign in California’s 33rd District. “She is an exotic political animal and perfect media catnip,” writes Mark Leibovich in “The Real House Candidates of Beverly Hills,” his dispatch from the fight for America’s second-wealthiest congressional district.

Williamson’s fund-raising soirees, attended by the likes of Katy Perry and Kim Kardashian, have given her a significant stage upon which to promote her views on issues like campaign finance reform, L.G.B.T. rights and climate change. And celebrities have responded in kind. Here are some of Williamson’s splashiest celebrity endorsements:

Nicole Richie: “I have had the opportunity to listen to Marianne, to get to know her, to listen to her message. And it’s given me the strength to send the right messages to my children, because the children of America are our future, and we need to make sure that we are not only living up to our past, but taking it even further.”

Eva Longoria: “I think it’s wonderful she doesn’t want to be beholden to this party or that party or this idea. She really believes that the power belongs to the people.”

Jesse Ventura: “Marianne is the type of leader we need in Washington today. I commend her for running and support her 100 percent.”

Deepak Chopra: “I just hope the public is ready for her. I think she speaks for an emerging consciousness.”

Kim Kardashian: “Kourtney and I spent some time with Marianne Williamson at her congressional-candidate press event the other night. . . . She is running as an Independent, and I am very pleased with all her efforts and goals for the future.”

Frances Fisher: “The moment she speaks, I think she is going to touch many more hearts and minds than we can even imagine. Because I think those people in Congress, too, in their hearts, have been wanting a way out. And nobody knows how, because they’re stuck in this calcified way of doing it. And she has the courage to come in with all of her grace and wisdom to say, yes, there is another way.”

Jane Lynch: “I know that Marianne Williamson cannot be bought. And that she will vote from her heart, in combination with her brain, which of course is wisdom, and we need more wise people in Congress.”

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